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The Roche Biochemical Pathways charts were the inspiration for the MetaCyc family of pathway/genome databases, all enabled by the Pathway Tools software (itself written with 400,000+ lines of Common Lisp):

Example pathway: Super-Pathway of glycolysis, pyruvate dehydrogenase, TCA, and glyoxylate bypass

http://www.metacyc.org/META/NEW-IMAGE?type=PATHWAY&object=GL...

MetaCyc has an order of magnitude more information integrated into it than most wall charts. Plus, you can get true interactive metabolic overview maps, where you can click on the enzymes and compounds (example from the E. coli database):

http://www.ecocyc.org/overviewsWeb/celOv.shtml (be sure to zoom in and click on things!)

The Pathway Tools software, and the metabolic networks, are freely available for academic use, and you can use it to construct your own metabolic networks.

Full disclosure: I'm a former full-time bioinformaticist on the project.



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